Category: language and literacy

• For The Sake of Human Dignity

  

  Cultivating Care Within Problem Behavior While Serving People For the last few months, my family has had to make some really tough medical decisions with and for a beloved family member.  Like many people, we are faced with caring for ourselves, our children, and loved ones at different points in their lives.  It’s made me […]

  Landria Green, SLP Guru

  October 7, 2021

  ABA and SLP, Being an SLP-Roll Up Your Sleeves, career in therapy, Conversations in Leadership, diversity and inclusion in ABA, language and literacy, Motivation, selfcare, therapy business, therapy business development

  #business, #slpeeps, aba therapy, healthcare, humandignity, inclusion, parent training

• EVERYONE HAS A STORY TO TELL

  FOCUSING ON CONNECTIONS AND ORAL NARRATIVES Narratives.  Stories.  We all tell them.  We learn from them. We teach with them. We listen to them . For young learners, narrative demands begin with a simple question, “How was your day?”  No matter your child’s ability, language level, speech intelligibility, and cognition; we want this simple question to […]

  Landria Green, SLP Guru

  June 15, 2016

  ABA and SLP, language and literacy, Parent Education, Social Fluency

  #asd, #slpeeps, autism

• Before you answer the next email, do one thing to Increase Your Child’s Language

  Being present is tough. Demands of emails, text messaging, who’s running for president, and the latest news story require you to keep up. But then you have the responsibility of these little people who are growing, developing, and will be off to college before you know it. On top of this, you see headlines for […]

  Landria Green, SLP Guru

  July 11, 2015

  language and literacy, Parent Education

  autism, language development, literacy, parent education, parent training, speech development

• THE COURAGE TO CHANGE

  CHANGING YOUR CHILD’S THERAPY TEAM WHEN THEY NO LONGER WORK FOR YOU Making the switch is a tough decision. If you are like me, you are committed and loyal to your relationships and have a hard time switching and moving on. But, sometimes it is completely necessary. And the top reason to move on is […]

  Landria Green, SLP Guru

  June 19, 2015

  ABA and SLP, Being an SLP-Roll Up Your Sleeves, language and literacy, Parent Education

  apraxia, autism, inclusion, parent education, speech therapy, vulnerability

• Writing and Communication Tools for Parents and Therapists

  This tool created by ReadWriteThink can be used by reading specialists, speech-language pathologists, parents, and tutors.  More than that, it can be used in a variety of ways. http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html Here are some suggestions: 1. Social Stories with an interactive Comic Strip. Set up the good idea, the bad idea, and the open ended comic strip.  […]

  Landria Green, SLP Guru

  September 20, 2011

  language and literacy

  language development, literacy, written expression

• One Language or Two? The Bilingual Quandry in Autism

  I appreciate great research, well founded studies with clinically relevant recommendations that can be utilized by therapists and consumers.  The topic of Bilingualism as it relates to autism or even relevant research with strong implications for bi or tri language acquisition in people with autism is a subject not well researched.  However, the answer of […]

  Landria Green, SLP Guru

  December 28, 2010

  ABA and SLP, language and literacy

  aba therapy, autism, language development, speech pathology

• Using Patterning to Teach Social Skills

  I read an article today posted on the web about teaching social skills.  The authors of these articles are correct: We cannot leave the teaching of social communication to the teacher. I’d like to add some other lessons as we enter the school year 1. Magic is magic and only left to the magicians.  With […]

  Landria Green, SLP Guru

  August 9, 2010

  Inclusion, language and literacy, Social Cognition

  autism, social cognition, social skills, speech pathology